Groan. Geoffrey Thomas is at it again.
Australian, self appointed "aviation expert"
was just on Australian news program discussing the RT which have been released.
It has already been established that the released transcript has been subject to a double translation which, when it comes to RT phraseology, makes it even less likely to actually reflect the conversation and essentially irrelevant to speculation of cause.
He then went on to say what the required read back from the crew (for a frequency hand off) should have been - and he was COMPLETELY wrong.
Nothing irks me more than a supposed technical/industry expert making things up which are incorrect and disseminating to the public. An aviation expert in RT phraseology is a pilot or ATC, not a journalist.
"Aviation expert"... In his own eyes only.